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Diversifying Storytime – Picturebooks and Boardbooks

Curated by

Rhian Pritchard

If you’re looking for a way to talk about the Black Lives Matter movement with your children, or you just want to introduce more diversity to your reading time, there are some fantastic books that offer a great starting place.

These are just some of our favourites, but if you’re looking for something that’s not listed below, drop us an email at books@mrbsemporium.com, and we’ll see what we can do!

Get 15% off when you buy all the books on the list

All books on this list £339.59 £288.60

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  • An ABC of Equality
    Chana Ginelle Ewing, Paulina Morgan
    £9.99
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  • B Is for Baby
    Atinuke, Angela Brooksbank
    £7.99
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  • Ruby’s Worry
    Tom Percival, Tom Percival
    £6.99
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  • The Proudest Blue
    Ibtihaj Muhammad, Hatem Aly, S. K. Ali
    £7.99
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  • The Undefeated
    Kwame Alexander, Kadir Nelson
    £6.99
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  • Little Leaders: Exceptional Men in Black History
    Vashti Harrison, Vashti Harrison
    £12.99
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  • All Are Welcome
    Alexandra Penfold, Suzanne Kaufman
    £6.99
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  • Sulwe
    Lupita Nyong'o, Vashti Harrison
    £12.99
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  • Hair Love
    Matthew Cherry, Vashti Harrison
    £6.99
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  • Julian Is a Mermaid
    Jessica Love, Jessica Love
    £6.99
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  • Sofia Valdez, Future Prez
    Andrea Beaty, David Roberts
    £12.99
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  • Billy and the Dragon
    Nadia Shireen, Nadia Shireen
    £6.99
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  • The Best Kind of Bear
    Greg Gormley, David Barrow
    £6.99
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  • Parker Looks Up
    Parker Curry, Jessica Curry, Brittany Jackson
    £12.99
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  • I Am Enough
    Grace Byers
    £12.99
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  • Amazing Grace
    Mary Hoffman, Caroline Binch
    £7.99
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  • Don’t Touch My Hair!
    Sharee Miller
    £6.99
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  • Once Upon a Dragon’s Fire
    Beatrice Blue
    £12.99
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  • The Incredible Hotel
    Kate Davies, Isabelle Follath
    £11.99
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  • 15 Things Not To Do With a Granny
    Margaret McAllister, Holly Sterling
    £6.99
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  • Lila and the Secret of Rain
    David Conway, Jude Daly
    £7.99
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  • The Girls
    Lauren Ace, Jenny Lovlie
    £6.99
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  • Superhero Gran
    Joe Berger, Timothy Knapman
    £6.99
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  • The New Small Person
    Lauren Child
    £6.99
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  • If I had a dinosaur
    Gabby Dawnay, Alex Barrow
    £6.99
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  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Mai Ly Degnan
    £9.99
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  • Harriet Tubman
    Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Pili Aguado
    £9.99
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  • Wilma Rudolph
    Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Amelia Flower
    £9.99
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  • Rosa Parks
    Lisbeth Kaiser, Marta Antelo
    £9.99
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  • Maya Angelou
    Leire Salaberria, Lisbeth Kaiser
    £9.99
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  • Ella Fitzgerald
    Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Barbara Alca
    £9.99
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  • Jesse Owens
    Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Anna Katharina Jansen
    £9.99
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  • If I had a sleepy sloth
    Gabby Dawnay
    £10.95
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  • Double Trouble
    Sarah Dyer
    £11.99
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  • Omar, The Bees And Me
    Helen Mortimer
    £7.99
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  • The Brownest Mouse in Town
    Tarah .L. Gear, Christine Cuddihy
    £7.99
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  • Jellybean Goes to School
    Margaret Roc, Laura Hughes
    £7.99
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